Senior Press & PR Officer (Fundraising) Maternity Cover

About us

We re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you re experiencing breast cancer, we re here.

The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.

About the role

At Breast Cancer Now, we re seeking a Senior Press & PR Officer to join our ambitious press, PR & celebrity team for 12 months. The role is focused primarily on the charity s Fundraising portfolio, including our corporate partnerships and high-value fundraising events, all of which raise vital funds that help the charity to deliver world-class research and provide life-changing support for anyone affected by breast cancer.

About you

As an excellent communicator, you ll be great at building trusted and influential relationships across a range of stakeholders including colleagues, journalists, external partners and advocates and ambassadors of Breast Cancer Now. This will help you bring our work to life, working collaboratively and effectively and at pace.

With significant experience in developing and delivering impactful PR campaigns, either in-house or in an agency, you ll tell powerful stories around our fundraising activity to achieve cut-through in the media and drive further engagement and support (including financial) from our key audiences.

Always putting the patient voice at the heart of our work, you ll be innovative and creative in your approach to secure maximum profile for annual events and campaigns, building on previous years successes and bringing fresh angles to this work to maximise engagement with the media and key audiences.

With strong written skills and an instinct for what makes a good news story, you ll thrive in a fast-paced press office, and always consider how content can be integrated and delivered across communications channels for greatest impact.

The successful candidate will be excited to be part of an ambitious, focused and supportive wider fundraising, communications and engagement directorate, which has a remit to reach and engage more people with our work than ever before, and to develop our fundraising to become a sustainable organisation for the future.

Job description and benefits

Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.

Primary location of role and hybrid working

This role is primarily based in our London office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.

When applying

We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you ve any immediate questions please email the Recruitment Team

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.

Please submit your application as soon as possible. We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis therefore this role may close before the advertised closing date.

Closing date: 9am on Thursday 9 January 2024

Interview date: Wednesday 22 January and Thursday 23 January 2024